Leuven in Books, Books in Leuven: The Oldest University of the Low Countries and its Library

Published in conjunction with an exhibition held in the Van Pelt Library, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, March-May 1999 organized by the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Contents: Prologue: an Attempt at Topography A University in Leuven Does a University need Books? At the Cradle of a Rebirth? On a Two-Legged Library and a University Press Point Zero as Intermezzo Tabula Rasa, or Where Does Culture End? An Uneven Contest? Division The Central Library Decentralizes Future Perspectives